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Half-told stories: “Exodus,” the Armenians, and Holocaust Day

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics and Policy

In real life, Yossi Harel didn’t really look like Paul Newman. Harel was the commander of the “Exodus,” the illegal immigration ship that was stopped by the British in 1947 before it could bring 4,500 Holocaust survivors to Palestine. In real life, the “Exodus” carried the survivors back to Germany. When Leon Uris fixed up [...]

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